Statistical summaries in relational databases mainly focus on the distribution of data values and have been found useful for various applications, such as query evaluation and data...
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...
This paper introduced the four tracks that WIM-Lab Fudan University had taken part in at TREC 2007. For spam track, a multi-centre model was proposed considering the characteristi...
Jun Xu, Jing Yao, Jiaqian Zheng, Qi Sun, Junyu Niu
This work proposes a model for video retrieval based upon the inference network model. The document network is constructed using video metadata encoded using MPEG-7 and captures i...
In this paper we consider the problem of searching for a node or an object (i.e., piece of data, file, etc.) in a large network. Applications of this problem include searching fo...